May 28, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



347 



ceases. If you have only^a week to build up, you can hardly iii.il 

 but you might la three. 



•J. Yes. 



3. I'm not sure I fully understand your question, but if you 

 only a short time to work between harvests, then act accordinfrly 

 you have a lonp enough time, you can make a new colony from 

 old one. If there isn't time enontrh for that, then draw only eni 

 brood to make one new colony out of each two old ones. If the 

 is too short for that, then draw only one or two combs of brood 

 bees from each old one, and make a new one out of several old on 



liave 

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 High 

 time 

 and 



Size of Hive— Shade— Best Bees. 



1. In a country where the seasons are wet and dry — very wet in 

 winter and very dry in summer — and where the temperature never 

 goes below 27 above zero, and rarely higher than 95 in the shade in the 

 summer, where sunstrokes are unknown, would you recommend deep, 

 shallow, or medium hives? 



i. Considering the above climatic conditions, would you recom- 

 mend that a roof be placed over the hives on the grdund for shelter* 



3. Keeping our climate in mind, which strain of bees would you 

 recommend — golden, red clover, leather-color, or Carniolan ? I want 

 the gentlest and best workers. California. 



Answers. — 1. For extracted honey, perhaps little choice; but for 

 comb the medium or shallow would be better. 



•-'. Hardly, except for sake of sheltering the bee-keeper from the 

 sun while at work at the hives; and for that purpose a covering of 

 boughs or vines would be sufficient. 



3. It isn't so much a difference between golden, red-clover, etc., 

 as it is to have the best of either one that you do have. The best of 



any one of them is better than the poorest of any other kind. Possi- 

 bly you might find among the leather-colored something that would 

 suit you as well as any, and there is nothing to binder any one of the 

 other three kinds from being red-clover bees. It will be no harm for 

 you to try more than one kind. 



Leveling Hlves-Drone-Comb. 



1. If the hives are not level would the brood reared be all the same 

 size* 



2. How can drone-comb be prevented best? Will cutting out and 

 putting in worker foundation do ; 



3. When is the best time to cut out drone-comb to prevent more 

 being built 1 



I have no spare worker-comb as I have just started keeping bees, 

 with two colonies. Manitoba. 



Answers.— 1. Yes. 



2. The best way to prevent drone-comb is to fill the frames with 

 worker foundation. If you have combs with patches of drone-cells in 

 them, there is no better %vay than to cut out the drone-comb and put 

 in its place patches of worker-comb. Foundation will do, but is more 

 troublesome. It would be worth while to cut up a frame of good 

 worker-comb for patching, and in its place get another comb built on 

 foundation. 



3. It doesn't matter when, if you fill the whole with worker-comb' 

 only it will be easier to do it in spring when the comb is empty. If 

 you want to try to get the bees to build worker-comb where you have 

 cut out the drone-comb ; have the building done by a colony having a 

 young queen, and the weaker the colony the more sure you will be not 

 to have any drone-comb built. 



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Bees wintered well here in southern Wis- 

 consin, coming: out in good shape. Thej' are 

 as strong as 1 ever saw them at this time 

 of the year, but the spring has been very bad 

 for them so far, April being very wet and cold. 

 They get about two days to worls every week. 



Last season was a bad one. There was too 

 much rain during' the spring and summer up 

 to the middle of .July. They worked well 

 after that, storing SO pounds of extracted 

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 would get twice u^ much this season. I never 

 saw white clover as thick every place— in the 

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 Of course, we can not tell much about the 

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 it. We will be able to tell more about it when 

 we get it in barrels or shipping-cases. 



It has been tine weather for four or five 

 days. Plums me in full bloom, and the bees 

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Grant Co., Wis.. May 11. U. S. Boyd. 



Look for Fine Honey=Flow. 



The first of Jla 

 honey. They arc- 

 honey is heavy, 

 cells built. Rear 

 weather is dry ar 

 siderable wind, 1 

 honey just the sn 

 paring to swarm, 

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Pickens Co., Gi 



V our bees l^egan Ijringing in 

 doing well, and the How in 

 No trouble to get queen- 

 iig is going on finely. The 

 d line; there has been cou- 

 nt the bees brought in the 

 me. Many colonies are i^re- 

 We look for a fine How of 

 vork from now on. 

 L, May 11. T. .S. H.\ll. 



A Dry and Silent Time. 



Drouth. Notliiiig quite like it known here 

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 up — and my apiary some of the time (Ijees in 

 tolerable order, you understand) is strangely 

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Lucas Co., Ohio. May 30. 



Cold and Unfavorable. 



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 four weeks. The oees are barely making a 

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